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REV. DR. TALMAGE.
rilE BROOKLYN DIVINE’S SUN
DAY SERMON.
Subject: “Are Wo Deluded'.*”
Text “He made his arrow i bright, he
insulted with images, he looked in the
| ir rr.”—Ezekiel xx., 21.
Two modes of divination by whfch the
Kinz of Babylon proposed to find out the
will God. He took a bundle of arrows,
nut them together, mixei them up, then
nulle I forth one, and by the inscription on
'tde ided what city be should first assault.
Phen an animal was slain, and by the lizhter
Jr darker color of the liver, the brighter or
iarker prospect of success was inferred. That
is the r-eaniug of the text: “He made his
trrows bright, he consulte I with images, he
look'd in the liver.”
Stupid delusion! And yet a I the ages have
bin tilled with delusions it seems as if the
world loves to be hoodwinked, the delusion
□f t! e text only a specimen of a vast number
of deceits practiced upon the human race. In
the latter part of th>- last century Johanna
Bouthcote came forth, pretending to have
divine power, made prophecies, had chapels
built in her honor, and one hundred
disciples came forth t > follow her. About
five years before the birth of Christ,
Apollonius was born, and he came forth,
iud after five years being sneechless accord
ing to the tradition, he healed the sick and
raised the dead, and preached virtue, and,
according to the myth, having deceased, was
brought to resurrection I
The Delphic Oracle deceived vast multi
tu ies of people; the Pythoness seated in the
Temple of Apollo uttering a crazy jargon
(roni which the people guessed their indi
vidual or national fortunes or misfortunes.
The utterances were of such a nature thxt
you could read them any way you wanted
to read them. A General going forth to bat
tle consulted the Delphic Oracle, and he
wanted to find out whether he was going to
be safe in the battle, or killed in the battle,
and the answer came forth from the Delphic
Oracle in such words that, if you put the
comma before the word “never,” it means
one thing, and if you put the comma after
the word “never,” it means another thing,
just opposite, The message from the
Delphic Oracle to the General was: “Go
forth, return never in battle shalt
Chou perish.” If he was killed, that
was according to the Delphic Oracle;
(f he came home safely, that was according
to the Delphic Oracle. So the ancient augur
ies deceived the people. The priests of those
auguries, by the flight of birds, or by the in
tonation of thunder, or by the inside appear
ance of slain animals, told the fortunes or
misfortunes of individuals or nations. The
sibyls deceived the people. The sibyls were
supposed to be inspired by women who lived
in caves and wrote the Sibylline books after
ward purchased by Tarquin the Proud. Bo
late as the year 1829, a man arose in New York,
E retending to be a divine being, and playing
is part so well that wealthy pierchants be
came his disciples and threw their fortunes
into his discipleship. And so in all ages,
there have been necromancies, incantations,
withcrafts, sorceries, magic al arts, enchant
ments, divinations and delusions. The one
of the text was only a sjiecimen of that
which has been transpiring in all ages of the
world. None of these delusions accom
plished any good They deceived, they
pauperized the people, they were as cruel as
they were absurd. They opened no hospitals,
they healed no wounds, they wiped away no
tears, they emancipated no serfdom.
But there are those who say that all these
delusions combined are as nothing compared
with the delusion now abroad in the world,
the delusion of the Christian religion. That
delusion has to-day over four hundred mil
lion dupes. It proposes to encircle the eart h
with its girdle. That which has been called
a delusion has already overshad owed the
Appalachian range on this side the sea, and
it has overshadowed the Balkan and Cau
casian ranges on the other side of the sea. It
has conquered England and the United
States. This champion delusion, this hoax,
this swindle of the ages, as it has been called,
has gone forth to conquer the islands of the
Pacific; the Melanasia and the Micronesia
and Malayan Polynesia have al ea iy
surrendered to the delusion. Yea, it has
conquered the Ind an Archqielago, and Bor
neo and Sumatra and Celebes and Java have
fallen under its wiles. In the Fiji Islands,
where there are 920,000 people, 102,000 have
already become the dupes of this Christian
religion, and if things go on as they are now
going on, and if the influence of this great
hallucination of the ages cannot be stopped,
it will swallow the globe. Supposing, then,
that Christianity is the delusion of the centu
ries, as some have pronounced it I propose
his morning to show you what has been ac
complished by this chimera, this fallacy, this
hoax, this swindle of the ages.
And in the first place, 1 remark, that this
delusion of the Christian religion has made
wonderful transformations of human char
acter. I will go down the aisle of any church
in Christendom, and I will find on either side
that aisle those who were once profligate
profane, unclean of speech and unclean of
action, drunken and lost. But by the power
of this delusion of the Christian religion they
have been completely transformed, and now
they are kind and amiable and genial and
loving and useful. Everybody sees the
change. Under the power of this great hallu
cination they have quit their former asso
ejat s. and whereas they once found their
chi» f delight among th se who gambled
and sworn and raced ho’ses, now they find
their chief joy among those who goto prayer
meetings and churches; so complete isthede
lusi n. Yoa, their own families have noticed
it—the wife has noticed it, the children have
noticed. The money’ that went for rum now
goes for books and for clothes and fore luna
tion. He is a new man. All who know him
say there has been a wonderful change.
AV hat is the cause of this change ’ This great
hallucination of the Christian religion. There
is as mu< h difference between what he is now
and what he once was, as between a rose and
& nettle, us between a dove and a vulture,
as between day and night. Tremendous de
lusion !
Admiral Farragut, one of the most ad
mired men of the American naw, early
became a victim of this Christian delusion,
and, seated, not long before his death, at
Long Branch, he wa; giving some frien’s an
account of his early life. He said: “My
father went down in behalf of the Unite 1
States Government to put an end to Aaron
Burr’s rebellion. I was a cabin boy ana
went along wth him. 1 could swear like an
old salt. I could gamble in every style of
gambling. I knew all the wickedness there
was at that time abroad. One day my father
cleared everybody out of the cabin except
myself, and* locked the door. He said :
4 David. wbat are you going to dn' What
are you going to be.'’ ‘Well.’ I
said. ‘ fath r, I am going to follow
the sea.* ‘Fellow the sea! and be a poor,
miserable drunken -ailor, kicked and ruffed
about the world and di of a fever in a foreign
hospital?’ ‘Oh! no,’ I said, ‘father, I will
not be that; I will tread the quarter-deck an i
command, as you do.’ ‘No. David.'my father
said; ‘no, David, a :>ers-<n that l-a« your
principles and your bad habits will ne • r
tread the quarter-de k or cornma’-d.’ My
father went out and shut 'he doorafter him.
and I said th°n; ‘1 will change, I will neve
swear again. I will never drink azain. I will
never gamble again;’ an 1, gentlemen by
help of God I ha -e kept th ,so three vows to
this time I soon after chat became a < n.’is
tian, and that de ided my fata for time ai.d
eternity.”
Another captive of this grext Christ an
delusion! There goes Saul of Tarsus on
tv rseoark at full ga’inp. Wfop-c is hi go
ing! To destroy Christians. He wants no
better playspell than to stand and wat-h the
hats and coats of the murderers who are
massacring God’s children. go°s the
same man. This time be is afoot. Wh re
is he go ; ng now? Going on the r-»ad to
Ostia t - die for Christ Th* y tried to wh y
it out of him. tbev tried to scare i f out of
him, th *y thought thev would g. e him
enwhof it by putting him intn a w n'tow
les» dungeon, aid keeping him on small
diet, and denying him a and
cordemninz him as a criminal, and
•cowling at him through the street; but they
con] I not f-mo e it out of him, and thev could ■
not sweat it out of him, and thev could not }
pound it out of him. so they tried the stir- 1
gery o’ the sword and one summer day in the
Jy a r R 5 be was de a stated Perhaps the
mightiest intellect of the •’».000 years of the
world’s existence hoodwinked, cheated. <a I
ioled, dupe! bv the Christian religion. Ah’ i
hat is the remarkable thing about thia dehi- i
ion of Christianity, it overpowers the
intellects. Gather the critics, secu
kar and religious, of thia century together, ’
and nut a vote to them aa to which is the
greatest book ever written, and by Urge
I majority they will sav “Paradise Lost.”
Who wr “Pa-ad se Loet r ’ One of the
fools who believed in this Bib’e. John Mil
ton. Ben am in Franklin surrendered to this
delusion, if von i-ay judge from the letter
that he wrote to Thomas Paine begging him
to destroy the “Age of Reason” in manu
script and never let it go into tvpe, and writ
ingafterward, in his old days: “Os this
Jesus of Nazareth I have to snv that the av«-
tem of morals He let, and the religion He
has given us are th» best things the world
has ever se.m or is likely to eee.”
Patrick Henry, the electric champion
of liberty, enslaved by this delusion,
so that he savs: “The book worth all other
books put together ia the Bible. Benjamin
Kush, the leading phvsiol and anatom
ist of his day, th » rreat medical s dentist—
what did ho Ray? “The only true and perfect
religion is Christianity. ” Isaac Newton, the
loading philosopher of his time—what did he
sav? That man surrendering to this delu
sion of the Christian religion, crying out:
“The subllmest rhilosonhv on earth ia the
philosophy of the Gospel ’’ David Brewster,
at the pronunciation of whose name every
scientist the world over b >w< his head, David
Brewster saving: “O, this relig on has been
a great light to me, a verv great light all my
days.” President Thiers. the great
French statesman, acknowledging that he
prayed when he sail: *•! invoke the Lord
God in whom lam glad to believe ” David
Livingstone, able to conquer the lion, able
to conquer the panther, able t > conquer t he
sava.e, yet coniuered by th s delusion, this
hallucination, this great swindle of the ages,
so when thev find him dead they find him on
his knee-. William E. Gladstone, the strong
est intell ct in England to-day, unable to re
sist this chimera, th s fallacy, this delusion
of the Christian religion, goes to the house
of God every Sabbath, and often, at the in
vitation of th 1 rector, r ads the prayers to
th" people. O, if those mighty intellects arc
overborne by this delusion, what chance is
there for you a id for me?
Beside that lhave noticed that first-rate
infidels cannot be depended on for steadfast •
ness in the proclamation of their sentiments
Goethe, a leading skep‘ic, was so wrought
upon by this Christianity that in a weak
moment he cried out: “My belief in the
Bible has saved me in my literary and moral
life.” Rousseau, on" of the most eloquent
champions of infidelitv, spending his whole
life warring against Christianity, cries out:
“The majesty of the Scriptures amazes me.”
Altamont, the notorious infid"l, one would
think he would have bean safe against this
delusion of the Christian religion Oh. no!
After talking against Christianity all his
days, in his last hours he cr : ei out: “Oh.
thou blasphemed but most indulgent
Lord God, hell itself is a refuge if
it hide me from Thy frown ” Voltaire, the
most talented infidel the wo Id ever saw,
writing two hundred and fifty publications,
and the most of th"m spiteful against Chris
tianity, himself the most n itorious libertine
of the century—one would have thought he
could have l>een depended upon for stead
fastness in the advocacy of infidelity and in
the war against this terrible chimera this
delusion of the Gosnel. But no; in his last
| hour he asked for Christian burial, and a<ks
that they give him the sacrament of the
Lord Jesus Christ. Why, you cannot de
pend upon these first-rate infidels—you can
not depend upon their power to resist this
great delusion of Christianity. Thomas
Paine, the gol of modern skeptics, his
birthdav celebrated in New York
and Boston with great enthusiasm—
Thomas Paine, the paragon of Bible
haters —Thomas Paine, about whom his
brother infidel. William Carver, wrote in a
letter which I have at my house, saving that
he drank a quart of rum a day and was too
mean and too dishonest to pay for it—Thom
as Paine, the a lored of modern infidelity—
-1 Thomas Paine, w’ho stole another man's wife
in England and brought her to this land—
Thomas Paine, who was so squalid and so
loathesome and so drunken and so profligat *
and so beastly in his habits, som times picked
out of the ditch, sometimes too filthy to«be
picked out —Thomas Paine, one would have
thought that he could have depended on
for steadfastness against this great, delusion.
But no. In his dying hour, he begs the Lord
Jesus Christ for mercy.
Powerful delusion, all-conquering delusion,
earthquaking delusion of the Christian re
ligion. Yea, it goes on, it is so impertinent,
and it is so overbearing, this chimera of the
Gospel, that having conquered the great
picture galleries of the world, the old mas
ters and the young masters, as I showed in a
former sermon, it is not satisfied until it has
conquerel the music of the world. Look
. over the programme of that magnificent
i musical festival a few years ago in
; New York and see what wre the
! gn at performances, and learn that the
greatest of all the subject-? were religious
subje ta. What was it one night w hen three
thousand voi ee were accom anied with a
! vast number of instruments? “Israel in
I Egypt” Yes. Beethoven deluded until he
i wrote the High Ma-s in D. Ma or. Haydn
1 deluded with this religion until he .wrote the
I “Creation.” Handel delu ’oi until he wrote
the oratorios of “Jephthah” and “Esther”
I and “Saul” an 1 “Israel in Egypt,” and the
“Messiah.” On the closing night three
thousand deluded people s neing of a delu
j sion to eight thousand deluded hearers.
Yes, this chimera of the Gospel i« not sat
isfied until it goes on and builds itself into
| the most permanent architecture, so it swenis
I as if the world is never to get rid of it. What
1 are some of the finest buildings in the world?
• St. Paul’s, St. Peter’s, the churche- and ca
| thelrals of all ( hristendom. Yes, this im
pertinence of the Gospel, this vast delusion
is not satisfied until it projects itself, and in
one year gives, contributes, ?f>,2V),o<!o to
, foreign missions, the work of which is to
I ma e dun<esand foots on the other side of the
i world—people we have never seen. Deluded
I dor tors—two hundred and twenty rhysi - nns
i meeting week by we k in I.ondon, in the
Union Medical Prayer Circle, to worship'
1 G<d. Deluded lawyers—the late Ixird Cairns,
the high st legal authority in England, the
I ex-advisor of the throne, spending his va a |
1 tion in pn acl|ing the Go«p» ! of Christ
tothe poor people of S ctland. Frederick
T. Frelinghuysen, once the Secretary of I
State of the United Stat s, an old-fashioned
evangelical Chr stian. an elder in the Pu> i
! ormed CLur h. Jonn Bright, a deluded
)unk< r Henry Wilson, the Vi no-President
' r the Unitel States, d yin? a deluded Me tho
iist or ('< Earl of Kintore
| lying a deluded I’res byte ran. The cauni-
>al- in South S"a, the Bushmen of Terra del I
'uego, the wild mon nf Australia, put tng
lown the knives of their cruelty, and clotb
ng themselves in decent apparel- -ad under
.ho p > ver of this delus-on. Judson,an I Doty,
in-i Abeel, and Camp l «ell and Will am ind
:b. thr?e thousand ndisionaries of the < ross, I
r .u Ding I heir backs on horn 3 and civilization ;
in d comfort,and going out among the squalor (
f heatbemsm t-> receive it, to .‘iave t. to
ado it, tolling until thev drop into tl.e;r .
graves, dying with no earthly comfort about
them, and going into graves with no appro- ,
nriate eoitaph, when they .night have Jived I
i iu this country, and lived for themselves,
1 and li /" I luxuriously, and been at last nut
i into brilliant sepulchres. What a d- luston!
I Yea this delusion of Christian religion
. shows it-elf in the fa t that it goes to ti o-o
* who aie in trouble. Now, it is bad enough
i to • h a a man when he is well, ami a hen he
is prosr/ rous: but this re igion f T oni^'°, a
man wh nhe is si< k. and a. s: “You wilt be
well again after a while; yon are going into
‘ a land where the e are no coughs and no
■ pleurisies and no consumption 4 and no
; languishing, taka courage and .>ear up. ’
Yra. thi- awful - Lin era ol the Gosfjel comes
to the poor and it says to them: “. ou
i are on your way to ’ ast estates and to
dividends slwov- de .ar ible.” This delusion
of Christianity c / >meßt , >tb A bereft, a.r d it
♦alks < f reunion befc re the throne and of t »e
"es ation of ail sorrow. And tten io ’bow
tiiat this delusion will sto>, at abso. jtely
nothing, it goes to the dying bed and fills tha
man with anticipation* How much better
it would be to have him die without any more
hope than swine and rate and snake* That
is all. Nothing more left him. He will never
know anything again. Shovel him under!
The soul is only a superior part of the body
and when the body disintegrates the soul dis,
integrates. Annihilation, vacancy, evei last
ing blank, obliteration. Why not
all that beautiful doctrine totne dying, in
stead of coming with this hoax, this swindle
of the Chrirdian religion, and tilling the dy
ing man with anticipations of another life,
until some in the last hour have clapped
th-ir hands, and some have shouted,
and some have sung, and some
have been se overwrought with joy they
could only look ecstatic. Palace gates open
ing, they thought; diamond corotets flash
ing. hands beckoning, orchesti as sounding.
Little children dying, actually believing they
saw their dei arted parents, so that,although
the little children had been so weak and fee
ble and sick fqr weeks they could not turn
on the dying pillow, at the last, in a jar
oxsyui of rapture uncontroliable,they sprang
to their feet, and shouted: “Mother, catch
me, 1 am coming!”
And to show the immensity of this delu
sion, this awful swindle of the Gospel of
Jesus Christ,l open a hospital and 1 bring into
that hospital the death-beds of a great many
Christian people, and I ta <e you by the hand
this morning, and I walk up and down the
wards of that hospital, ana I ask a few
questions: “Dying Stephen, what have you
to say?*’ “Lord Jesus, receive my spirit.”
“Dying Johu Wesley, what have you to
say/” “The best of all is, God is with us.”
“Dyipg Edward Payson, what have you to
says” “I float in a sea of glory.” “Dying
John Bradford, what have you to say?”
“If there be any way of going to Heaven on
horseback, or in a fiery chariot, it is this.”
“Dying Neander, what have you to says” “I
am go. ng to sleep now—good-night.’ “Dy
ing Mrs. Florence Foster, what ha\o you to
say?” “A pilgrim in the valley, but the
mountain tops are all ngleam from peak to
i>eak. ’ “Dying Alexander Math-r, what
have you to say ?” “The I .ord who has taken
care of me illty years, will not cast me off
now; glory be to God and to the lambi
▲men, amen, ameu, amen!” “Dying John
Powson, after preaching the Gospel so many
years, what have you to say I” My death-bed
is a bed of roses.” “Dying Doctor Thomas
Scott, what have you to say?” “This is
Heaven begun.” “Dying soldier in the last
war, what Lave you to say!” “Boys, 1 am
going to the front.” “Dying telegraph ope
rator on the battle-field of Virginia, what
have you to say?’ “The wires are all laid,
and the poles are up from Btony Point to
headquart *rs.” “Dying Paul, what have you
to say t” “1 am now ready to be ottered, and
the time of my departure is at hand; 1 have
fought the good light, I have finished iny
course, 1 have kept the faith. O Death,
where is thy sting! O Grave, where
is thy victory? Thanks be unto God who
giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus
Christ” O, my Lord, my God, what a de
lusion, what a glorious delusion! Submerge
me with it, fill my eyes and ears with it, put
it under my dvinghead for a pillow—this de
lusion—spread it over me for a canopy, put
it underneath me for an outspread wing, roll
it over me in ocean surges ten thousand
fathoms deep! O, if infidelity,and if atheism,
an I if annihilation are a reality, and the
Christian religion is a delusion, give me the
delusion?
Th" strong conclusion of every man and
woman in the house is that Christianity pro
ducing such grand results cannot be a delu
sion. A lie. a cheat, a swindle, an hallucina
tion cannot launch such a glory of thecontu**
ries. Your logic and your common sense con
vince you that a l>ad cause cannot produce an
illustrious result; out of the womb of such a
monster no such angel can be born. There
are many in this house this morning, in the
galleries and on the main floor, who began
wit h thinking that the Christian religion was
a stupid farce, who have come to the conclu
sion that it is a reality. Why are you
here to day! Why did you sing this song?
Why did you bow your head in the opening
prayer? Why did you bring your family
with you? Why, when I tell you of the end
ing of all trials in t he bosom of God, do there
stand tears in your eyes—not tears of grief,
but tears of joy, such as stand in the eyes of
homesick children far away at school when
som j one talks to them about going home?
Why is it that you can be so calmly sub
missive to the death of your loved one, about
whose departure you once were so angry
and so rebellious? There is some
thing the matter with you. All your
friends have found out there is a great
change. And if some of you would give
your experience, you would give it in schol
arly styl". and others giving your experi
ence would give it in broken style, but the
one experience would be just as good a’ the
other. So ne of you have read everything.
You are scientific and you are scholarly,and
yet if I should ask you: “W hat is the most
sensible thing you ever did?” you would say:
“The most sensible thing I ever did was to
give my heart to God.”
But there may l>e others here who have not
had early advantages, and if they wer«»
asked to give their experience, they might
rise and give such testimony as the man gave
in a prayer-meeting, when he said: “(m my
way here to-night, I met a man who asked
me where I was going. I said. ‘I am going
to prayer-meeting.’ He b »i«l ■ ‘There are a
good many jeligions, and I think the m< si of
them are delusions; as to the Christian
religion, that is only a notion, that
is a mere notion, the Christian
religion. 1 said to him ‘Stranger, you mg
that tavern over there/’ ‘Yes,’ he said, ‘I see
it’ ‘Do you Bee met’ ‘Yes, of Goul’s#* 1 see
you.’ ‘Now, the time ’.ui». gs everybody
in this town knows, that if I La i a quarter
of a dollar in my po k**t I could not pass that
tavern without going in and getting a drink;
all the people of Joner»on < ould not keep me
out of that place; but God has changed iny
heart, and the Ix>rd Jesus Christ han
destroyed my thirst for strong drink, and
there is my whole week’s wages, and I have
no temptation to go in there; and. strung! r,
if this i.« a notion, I want to tell you it i-a
mighty powerful notion . it is a notion that
has put clothes on my • Lil lren s back, and it
h a notion that has filled my mouth with
thanksgiving to < od. And, e trang» r, you
ha I better go along with me. you miyfit get
rcJigion, too; lots of jxfople are getting re
ligion now.’ ”
Well, we will soon understen 1 it oil. Your
life and mine will hoou be over. We will
soon come to the last bar of th. mini ’, to
the last act of the tra.r # l ’, to the hi I ja /o
of the book—yea. to the last line and t > the
last word, ami to y-»u and to mo it will itber
be znidnoon or midnight.
The Nrw South.
Editor Grady, of the Atlanta
f/'o/i, after his return from Ne v En'dand,
Dinah, there isn't a thing on this table
fit to eat. Haven't you any b.;ked
beans?
Dina—No. honey.
“Do you know how to make brown
bread ?”
“ Neber learned dnt, Hah.”
“You can make pumpkin pie, can’t
you ? ”
“No, »ah.”
“Well, well, I can’t see where you
were brought up.”— V. urld.
Axntx Kohr, of Lawrenceourg, J nd.,
though but nine years old, L s for
months been the teacher of a regular
organized gang of girl thieves of a.iout
Ler own age, who have been very suc
cessful in their petty robberie-. Her
' last performance was to board a train,
ride to Aurora, a id there enter th' bou e
of a well-known citizen and st al his
wiie’s ' t'.'h and eha : n. Tint d to
her arrest, and she wi 1 be sent to the
Hou’e of Refuge
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X i ar readily lie learned from
I the Manual of in
'-J struction. In tlio
ftKsf- A
hands of an intellisent operator it novel
fails to properly do its work.
Send stamp for circular, or 25 cents for
Manual.
PRICF., - . »40,
With Caao ami Manual, ftize, in.;
Weight, lbs.
Additional instruction by mail, free, if doairod.
U. S. STENOGRAPH CO.,
402 N. 3d STREET. - ST. LOUIS, MO.
THE
“Happy Ttaghl”
RANGE,
With Duplex Crate,
Far GOAL or WOOD.
Tho "Happy Thought” Is the
leader and the best working
Range in the market. It is made
In forty different styles and sizes.
Ask your stove dealer for the
"Happy Thought,” or send for
circular and prices.
PITTSTON STOVE CO.
PITTSTON, PA.
PAINTS
Fm Houses, Beras, Fences, Roofs, Icslde
Painting, Wagons, Impkm&ats, etc.
HiMMie’s Gumbahteed Fuse Paint.
Warranted to Give Satisfaction.
Economical, Beautiful, Durable, Eicellent.
Send fpi free Illustrated and Descriptive Catalogue tc
F. HAMMAR PAINT COMPANY,
CINCINNATI-—ST. LOUIS.
Ask ytur merchant lor IL
OUK
JOB Pfflffl
DEPARTMENT
"y ■nytM wt-k *B th» hr Eoti,
•M nf fob a>. *:«»A In P rij.
rtUw Bt<*, ?boi. pt v and it A**-
WVIXBTKS CUKDS,
VISITxNa CAED3,
UVdINE3B OARDB,
BALL CALLS,
ramuj.
II
Ka Ribbing! No Backache! No Sore Pingen!
WarrantMd noC to lt\fure the Clothes.
Aak. your <Srocrr fov it. If he rnnnot pnp
ply you, one cake will be mailed ruKK on
of six two cent stamp* for postage. A beauttrul
1 olne-colorod “Chromo” with three bare. Deal
j ar» aud Grocer* should write for particulars
C. A. SHODDY & SON,
mockford. XMm
T -THE,
MRENtE
PURE LINSEED OIL
n MIXED
fAINTS
READY FOR USE.
«- The llest I-aiiit Marie.
Gunrnnta<*d to contain no WHter,
benzine, baryte*, chernioelA. rubber,
•sbcHtofl, roein, gloee oil, or otber
similar adulteration*.
A full giiurnntee on every
and directions for uae, so thai soy
one not a practical paint«‘rcan use It
Handsome sample cacti*.
98 beautiful shacies, mailed fr-e on
application. If not kept by your
deal er, write to us.
Be card'll to ask tnr " THE LAWHFMCE PAINIS."
i end do not tako any other .aid to t>« a> uuod *•
> Lewrence'a.”
I W. W. LWREKCE & so.,
PITTHBVKUM. I’A.
_______
YOU
PAINT
j I tj eiemlne
& ili'/ wetherill-b
Z'. IMr Artistic Oceljna
, jo X <>lil I'.’.Mnnd
H<mw*a,QiiernAnne
Cottagee, Hubnrlmn
B«tM<m<ea, etc. ,c<4-
/'■ <%2i'ore,! to match
1 J KmF wewLW rUnrtoaof
4S#7?^Atl a
and allowing the
sOKKr latest and moat ef
fecit ve combination
_ of colors ia bouse
•Acuate If your dealer has not
•r ATAry got our portfolio, nak h I in
*aak M » g vSi to send to us for one. You
iSI cknthcn aee exactly how
•ATLAS I 5® r,i your house will appear
READY- \ L W J when finlhhed.
MIXED \ tax 41 Do this and use “Atlas”
•aiNT Ready-Mlxsd Paint and in-
rsisi sure youreeii antiafactlon.
AM
3lfflGeo.D.WetlierillfiCo.
SSvitA I li rAWHITE LEAD and P*IHT
q manufacturers,
” l-dF66 North Front Bt.
PHILAD’A, PA
'DURKEES
jjESICCATEq
£-• v CELERY u
If; I POSSESSING THE
Jdibu. COMPLETE
FLAVOR OF THE _P IAN J
S^^ gauntlet BRAND
ftSPICES
SAIAD DRESSING
Flavoring .Sr
EXTRACTS I;
BAKINC
cHA LLENCESAU[; e
MEATS. FISH&
GENUINE INDIA
CURRY POWDER’ 'W
JDHNS»r s ANODYNE
«MINIMENT.W
w-ncBKE-Tunhiherl*, Orov.p, Ai'kmj, Brondkltla, irnnML Bh*ora«Hjm. %«qdbic at
>io.r»n‘ ... H’a.klnrO'nufh,Whooping dou,h,C.><irrt»,<:iv,>< r.rMorb.i, J>y.»ot««. Chip, la
?M*rrhzx n, K Troiui.o., andhpioal J'axnph a * i >■> . V.. I. H. co. VBorfUri). Ma. a.
PARSONS’ SS PILLS
• T»„ • plllu w, ro a won.lorful dW-cvorx. U ■->U, rn llkn r In U,« world. W>.n : ,0.1ti..; , .«r» or
re u.-ve ail raunno •of ru»«Mo. Th<’ informniW/n wrotuuo cm > ■ 'ti I* worth Len time* leu r»ost or a i<or w
Find oui about thon »U)'l you v/11l aJwaya /o tbana'il. Ooepi! « d jae. I i mtrnied parr.pb cfc-
Tree , 7wh» rc t or >ym; iJ for 2ix.■ io . J>r i. fi. ■»<>/< NHO S< CO 2'j CMht L
llilWE HENS DM
L'. <• .-/<;» /w. rc. or wtr ♦by mH For 2b <;«uU La aUuuzs. K J :b. «»r- <«>*''
aLx caAi* oy express, prsA-BAd* A. M. wOILITHOIS a C/J., LM.mv)*
The Most Perfect Instrument WorlL
Uaed Exclusively at the
“Grand Conservatory of music,”
OF NEW YORK.
Endorsed by all Eminent Artiste.
XOIP fHICKS! KASY TBRMBt
AUBUSTUS BAUS4CO,,mi.
W»«eioo«s. 58 W. 23d St. New Via.
■■■■■■■■■■■■ Tbi«
Board la mad*
■ ■ es ONI SOLI*
■ NOBTHVTAB ■ BIIIJRT Os
! ■ WASH BOAR* ■ HKAVrtORRU-
■ ■ WATER ZINC,
IM QESmSmSBHKKI iW which produoaa
: a double-faced
boa, d of the
Lra( qUAlity and
duraLHity. The
fluting le very
danp. boldine
ruotr wntrr Altd
<• • 1 «• i>■ • • •«i y
fh-li't! LrtUtl
w n *• 11 * ”« 1 haß
IpOa■ aiiy " t<h board
tT> 11 uiArkel.
Tho liame it
W, " ,< L H|, d held
1111 l ? feCflEfSs L'J'htlir I Itil as
<ron ,M>,t ni>>
nm. IRTT. M "‘"l' •
ASK YOUR GROCER FOR IT !■ the lower edge
And tako no other. If he of the zine.tlMM
dooH not keep it, it t* hneauao binding the
of ite dnrnbUity. If he will M whn j ft togetlM
notgetit for you no will for- ■fl ln ~f x _
ward one on receipt of price. ■*" th® moat
r|U(l IF. ueiiysLr, joo. ■ oUntlalmannag
r **’ * | I.nundry su.«. 75c. w and producing*
wash board which for economy. excellence and dur
ability In unquoNtlonably the boat in the world.
We And no many <lonleth that object to our board
on account of ita PIIIUBILITT. saying “It wife
last too long, we can never sell a uuatomer bet
one.*' Wo take thia meant to advise consumer* to
INHIHT upon having tho
NORTH STAR WASH BOARD.
TUK »f «T ■■ TW« (
■auiutnnd by PFANSCHKIDT, DODGE a 00 M
a«e & 250 West Polk Bt., CMOUO, IIU
I
Are tie Finest in tie WorlL
Thwe Extracts navor vary.
BUIT.BIOR FOR BTBENGTH.QIJALTrX,
PURITY, EOONOMY, ETC.
Made from 8«l»oUd Fruita and Bploaa,
heist on having Eastlno's Flavors
AND TAKE NO OTHERS.
SOLD BY ALL GROCERS.
EASTIITH & CO.,
41 Warren St., New York.
IhiORRVILLE
CHAMPION COMBINED
Grain Holler.
Acknowledged by Tbroebcrnwn to bo
THe KJLxigf!
Remetnberwe make the onJyTw<»•</’
Grain Tbrewhrr and Clover liuller that
will do Um work of two separate machines The
Clover llulb-r la note simple attachment bnt
a swpiirate hulling cylinder constructed and op<*»-
led upon tb« mo«t approved scientific principle*,
Jl h* llm widest wparailng capacity of any machfno
I iq the market. I* light, compact, durabl**
ueoe bat Olio belt ami rcqnlrce lr*o
power find liftw fnwsit working par**
(hamuiy oilier imuhlne. Novlmple
In (-onetriiction tlantlt ie eneilr unde>»
*too«l. Will tbresh perfectly all kino of gratae
tocHN, timothy, flax, clover, etc. Hand for clrcoltok
price list, etc., of Throshers, Engines, Haw MiU*
and Drain Registers, and bo auro to mention thio
hiapcr A facial* wiinOid, Address .
mHE koppes machine co.
ORRVILLE, O.